Tuesday, January 31th, Cardio & Cafe

Hiya Botts:

It is the last day of January, 2012.  How has your month been?  Did you lose weight?  Did you start a new exercise?  How about trying a new food item?  I did lose 5 lbs. this month and I have increased my incline and speed on my treadmill this month too?  I am loving all the new flavors of quest bars too.  My cardio and eats for today are:

5:15 AM 1 hour walk on treadmill

Prebreakfast:  Coffee & Miralax
Breakfast:  Chocolate Unjury Shake
Snack:  Quest Brownie Bar
Lunch:  Quest Peanut Butter Bar
Snack:  Cheese, crackers & Grapes
Dinner:  Steak Taco
Snack:  Vanilla Protein Pudding

Have a wonderful day and don't forget those vits and fluids.

Good morning!  I had a great month in January weight wise.  I lost nine pounds.  I really bumped up my exercise routine and watched my protein.  I still have about 40 more to get to goal weight!  This year I will make it.  I joined a challenge at the gym to work out for at least 30 minutes three days a week.  At the end of the challenge I will be entered in to win a workout with a personal trainer and I so need that!  I need to work on toning and tightening my abdominal muscles. 

Cardio for the day is couch to 5k week 4.  I ran a half of a 5k today.

Stephanie E

Great Stephanie.. nine pounds is Faboo girl..go for it  ! I know you'll win..I do believe Protein is the trick !! have a great day ! Des

 Awesome weight loss!  You got it gonna on!!!  Keep up the great job! 

Mornin,
I did well in January, no gain.  Today is starting well.  I've completed 20 minutes on treadmill and about 10 minutes with weights.  Vitamins taken too.  Here's my menu:

Food Name	Amount	Unit	Cals	Fat (g)	Carbs (g)	Prot (g)	Delete
		Total	1,008	49.6	52.0	87.1
Tea, Dieters/cup		serving grams kg lb oz	0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Coffee, decaffeinated		fl oz coffee cup (6 fl oz) mug (8 fl oz) grams kg lb oz	2	0.0	0.4	0.4
Creamer/Amaretto		serving grams kg lb oz	70	3.0	10.0	0.0
Water, tap		cup fl oz grams kg lb oz	0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Milk/AlmondVanUnswt/cup		serving grams kg lb oz	35	2.5	1.0	1.0
Egg, whole, boiled		cup egg extra large jumbo large medium slice small grams kg lb oz	154	10.6	1.1	12.5
Cranberries/dried/1Tbsp		serving grams kg lb oz	20	0.0	5.0	0.0
Salad/OrganicSpringMix/3cups		serving grams kg lb oz	40	0.0	6.0	4.0
SaladTopping/CrispyOnions		serving grams kg lb oz	35	2.0	4.0	0.0
WheyProtein/PntBtrChoc		serving grams kg lb oz	130	2.0	3.0	26.0
Tomatoes, raw		cup cup, cherry tomato cup, chopped or sliced oz, raw, yields Italian tomato cherry large whole (3" dia) medium whole (2-3/5" dia) medium slice (1/4" thick) plum tomato small whole (2-2/5" dia) thick/large slice (1/2" thick) wedge (1/4 of medium tomato) thin/small slice grape tomato grams kg lb oz	15	0.2	3.3	0.7
Cheese/SalsaCheddar/1slice		serving grams kg lb oz	55	4.5	0.0	3.5
Cheese/HotPepper		serving grams kg lb oz	35	2.5	0.3	2.0
Dressing/CucumberRanch/2Tbsp		serving grams kg lb oz	120	12.0	3.0	0.0
GreekYogurt/FageO%/6oz		serving grams kg lb oz	100	0.0	7.0	18.0
Tuna/ChunkLight/2.6ozpouch		serving grams kg lb oz	165	10.0	1.0	18.0
Blackberries, raw		cup oz yields grams kg lb oz	31	0.4	6.9	1.0
		Total	1,008	49.6	52.0	87.1

Now to just stick to the plan.  Wishing us all success in our plans and goals.
Z

 Hi Lifebeauty:

Every week I don't lose, I consider myself a success for being able to maintain it.  I have found that I can always lose weight but the secret is in the maintenance of that lost.  Keep up the good job!

Good Morning Botts!

January ended on a great note!  After 2 weeks of no gain or lose - today was my weigh-in and down 2.5 lb. from last weigh-in........total January lose of 10.5 - and met my goal of losing 8 to 10 lb. per month.   So all in all......January has been kind to me.  

I am on the treadmill.........up to 35 mintues now and thinking about finding a 3k or 5k in my area in the spring - I should be ready for it.  When I first started back on January 3rd - I think I was too "gun-ho" - I have back problems and arthritis in my shoulder and major pain most days.  Since I have toned it down - no back pain and no shoulder pain.  My mind says "you can do it" but the body says "now wait a minute" .   Each week I am increasing minutes, speed, and incline. 

I did try a new food item - Quest Protein Bars............love them!  yum! yum!  it surely satisfies my sweet tooth.  Thanks Tess for turning me on to them.  I also have my daughter eating them too.  She is a type 1 diabetic and not a breakfast person.  This is helping her with her eating in the mornings and her sugar levels. 

Wishing everyone a good day!  And.......looking forward to February!

 Hi Janet:

You are smokin'!!!  Congratulations on the great weight loss!  Awesome job! 

Good Morning BOT buddies

Lets see, January, well, I know I set a resolution to get BOT for 2012, did not write down the number on the scale on January 1st, just remember I was NOT happy with it ...Based on todays weigh-in I'm definately down though ...Writing my # on the calender for February 1st so I can have some official tracking...Struggling with food a little bit, getting hit with cravings frequently & sometimes just cannot work past them, but do feel like I'm making serious progress at being more concious about my eating choices, need to be better about my daily protein totals, only consistantly hitting 50-60 grams a day with a cal total between 800-900 and I know that I'm not getting enough protein, would like to be closer to 80 a day...

Pre B : 1 homemade dark chocolate dipped pecan ( sweet kick-start )
B : protein coffee
S : balance nimble pb protein bar
S : fru-fru coffee
L : 2 deviled eggs, 2 breakfast sausage links & a cheese stick
D : caesar salad with bacon & tomato added ( DH & kids are having BLT's & salad for dinner,       having my stuffing added to my salad NO bread, except the croutons )

Cardio : 1/2 mile walk with Bella & DH

 Hi Alesia:

Just remember that it is the little changes that we make that add up to the big ones later on.  You are doing good, so keep it up!!